Re: [patch] 2.3.99-pre3-3: dev_alloc_name

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 15:59:46 EST


"Manfred Spraul" <manfreds@colorfullife.com> writes:

> Does anyone know how gcc+ld merge identical strings, and if that works if an
> identical string appears in different files?

This does not work at all in the moment. There is an extension to the
ELF format designed to help in this case. But due to lacking binutils
support this is not yet supported in gcc either.

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